alberto kinta nix a. role call. pai(role call). >> we have a quorum. >> thank you, colleagues. i have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from today's meeting. is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. with that, can we go to the citizen's advisory committee. mr. larsen, good morning. turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. >> good morning. i'm the care of the citizen's advisory committee and i'm here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6.5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. the main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. there was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. they were to free up regular lanes from slower moving heavy vehicles there and thereby s